David Pittman

David Pittman
Personal information
Full name	David Pittman
Date of birth	(1969-02-23) 23 February 1969
Original team(s)	Norwood (SANFL)
Height	202 cm (6 ft 8 in)
Weight	98 kg (15 st 6 lb; 216 lb)
Position(s)	Ruckman / Centre Half-Back
Playing career¹
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1992–99	Adelaide	131 (34)
¹ Playing statistics correct to the end of 1999.
Career highlights
2x AFL Premiership player (1997, 1998) Adelaide Team of the Decade - Interchange 5 State of Origin games for South Australia
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

David Pittman (born 23 February 1969) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Adelaide Crows in the Australian Football League (AFL).

Originally from South Australian National Football League (SANFL) club Norwood, Pittman was drafted by Essendon in the 1989 VFL Draft but played no games for them. He was traded to Adelaide in 1991 and made his AFL debut with Adelaide in 1992, playing as a ruckman.

Pittman is sometimes remembered for an incident early in the 1997 AFL season where Adelaide coach Malcolm Blight labelled his effort "pathetic" after a game at the MCG in Melbourne. The 1997 season turned out to be one of Pittman's most successful as he moved between centre half-back and the ruck playing an important part in the Crows' premiership side that year.^[1]

Pittman also played in the 1998 AFL Grand Final, winning his second premiership. At the end of 1999, Pittman retired having played 131 games for 34 goals and 5 games for South Australia.^[1]

Statistics

^[2]

Legend
G	Goals	B	Behinds	K	Kicks	H	Handballs	D	Disposals	M	Marks	T	Tackles	H/O	Hit-outs

Season	Team	#	Games	G	B	K	H	D	M	T	H/O	G	B	K	H	D	M	T	H/O
Season	Team	#	Totals									Averages (per game)
1992	Adelaide	15	1	0	0	1	3	4	1	0	13	0.0	0.0	1.0	3.0	4.0	1.0	0.0	13.0
1993	Adelaide	15	17	1	1	51	95	146	43	17	130	0.1	0.1	3.0	5.6	8.6	2.5	1.0	7.6
1994	Adelaide	15	20	1	2	78	85	163	61	12	69	0.1	0.1	3.9	4.3	8.2	3.1	0.6	3.5
1995	Adelaide	15	18	9	2	117	116	233	59	20	307	0.5	0.1	6.5	6.4	12.9	3.3	1.1	17.1
1996	Adelaide	15	19	8	8	119	132	251	83	10	338	0.4	0.4	6.3	6.9	13.2	4.4	0.5	17.8
1997	Adelaide	15	23	4	7	149	89	238	65	13	317	0.2	0.3	6.5	3.9	10.3	2.8	0.6	13.8
1998	Adelaide	15	18	5	4	75	59	134	36	10	229	0.3	0.2	4.2	3.3	7.4	2.0	0.6	12.7
1999	Adelaide	15	15	6	4	90	56	146	45	3	262	0.4	0.3	6.0	3.7	9.7	3.0	0.2	17.5
Career			131	34	28	680	635	1315	393	85	1665	0.3	0.2	5.2	4.8	10.0	3.0	0.6	12.7

References

1 2 Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2003). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (5th ed.). Melbourne, Victoria: Crown Content. p. 581. ISBN 1-74095-032-1.
↑ "David Pittman". AFL Tables.

Adelaide Football Club 1997/98 AFL premiers
1997: Adelaide 19.11 (125) defeated St Kilda 13.16 (94), at the Melbourne Cricket Ground 1998: Adelaide 15.15 (105) defeated North Melbourne 8.22 (70), at the Melbourne Cricket Ground
3. Jarman 5. Koster 7. Smart 9. Edwards 10. Robran 11. James 13. Ellen 14. Connell 15. Pittman 23. McLeod 26. Bickley (c) 28. Johnson 34. Hart 36. Goodwin 44. Caven 52. Rehn
Coach: Blight

David Pittman in South Australian State of Origin teams

South Australian team – 1992 State of Origin
Anderson Bickley Bradley Carey Champion Francis Hall Hynes Jarman Kappler Kernahan Leslie Maynard McDermott (c) Modra Naley Obst Pittman Russell Saliba Smart Wanganeen
Coach: Cornes

South Australian team – 1993 State of Origin
South Australia 19.13 (127) defeated Western Australia 14.17 (91), at Football Park, 2 June 1993, crowd: 21,487 South Australia 16.13 (109) defeated Victoria 14.13 (97), at the MCG, 5 June 1993, crowd: 31,792
Both games	Bickley Bradley Francis Grenvold Hall Hart Hynes A. Jarman D. Jarman Leslie McDermott (c) McGuinness (vc) McKay Modra Obst Pittman Robran Russell Smart Wanganeen
Semi-final vs. Western Australia	Anderson Platten
Final vs. Victoria	Bulluss Kernahan
Coach: Cornes

South Australian team – 1995 State of Origin
Bickley Bradley Bulluss Champion Clarke Daffy Hart Hynes A. Jarman D. Jarman McDermott (c) McKay McKinnon Pittman Platten Ricciuto Russell Smart Tregenza Viney Wanganeen Wellman
Coach: Cornes

South Australian team – 1997 State of Origin
Bickley Bond Bradley (c) Clarke Hart Heuskes Holland Jarman Lade Lyle McKay Mead Modra O'Loughlin Pittman Platten Ricciuto Russell Viney Wanganeen Wellman Wilson
Coach: Ebert

South Australian team – 1999 State of Origin
Bradley Burgoyne Camporeale Clarke Daffy Darcy Edwards Francou Hart Holland James McKay McRae Mead Pickett Pittman Ricciuto Robran Rogers Smart Tredrea Viney Wakelin Wellman
Coach: Cornes

1989 VFL national draft
First round	1. Anthony Banik 2. Matthew Croft 3. Jody Arnol 4. Peter Matera 5. Brad Rowe 6. Mark Brayshaw 7. Stephen Edgar 8. Brad Tunbridge 9. Dale Kickett 10. Daryl Groves 11. Darren Smith 12. Gavin Wanganeen 13. Allister Scott 14. Ben Allan
Second round	15. Nathan Bower 16. Jason Shields 17. Gilbert McAdam 18. Robert Wren 19. Ashley Green 20. Brett Hawkey 21. Peter Doyle 22. Mathew Hanrahan 23. Roger Delaney 24. Mathew Styles 25. Paul Rouvray 26. Alister Carr 27. Joel Saunders 28. Jason Gibson
Third round	29. Wayne Campbell 30. Glenn Coleman 31. Darel Hart 32. Shaun Slater 33. Shaun Hart 34. Andrew Venner 35. Chris Bond 36. Rohan Smith 37. Shayne Stevenson 38. Gavin Rose 39. Peter Cransberg 40. Travis St Clair 41. Chris Waterworth 42. Matthew Robran 43. Chris Guerts 44. Jonathan Solomon 45. Sasha Dyson-Holland 46. Shane Radbone
Fourth round	47. Richard Gerke 48. Dennis Rapacholi 49. Greg Jones 50. Dean Irving 51. Joe Wilson 52. Rod Jameson 53. Derek Coghlan 54. Steven Bozicevic 55. Grant Coffee 56. Shayne Bennett 57. Tim Moreland 58. Jason Dullard 59. Daniel Frawley 60. Chris Sharp
Fifth round	61. Simon Eastaugh 62. John Brunner 63. Wayne Thornborrow 64. Tony Evans 65. Alan Schwartz 66. Shannon Bergmann 67. Ben Judd 68. Scott Tomlinson 69. Jamie Elliott 70. Paul Williams 71. Glenn Wilkins 72. Glenn Crawford 73. Tim Birthisel 74. Alistair Burke
Sixth round	75. Stephen Pearce 76. Shayne Ward 77. Christian Lister 78. Stephen Schwerdt 79. David Brown 80. Damien Murray 81. Sam Gross 82. Troy Lehmann 83. Mark Robinson 84. Matthew Kelly 85. Anthony Tohill 86. Gerrard Harrington 87. Ashley Coutts 88. Tim Leng
Seventh round	89. Jason Smith 90. Ben Cross 91. Grant Lawrie 92. Brett Heady 93. Tony Paynter 94. John Bingham 95. Jeremy Smith 96. Gary Stevens 97. Paul McConville 98. Kym Russell 99. Nick Tsiotanis 100. David Pittman 101. Richard Harrison 102. Dion Sheehan
Eighth round	103. Brett Chalmers 104. Tony Trigg 105. Stuart Annand 106. Ernie Hug 107. Sean Valenta 108. Eric Lissenden 109. Colin Corkery 110. Craig Budarick 111. David Noble 112. Ashley McIntosh 113. Shane Crothers 114. Jason Walscgott 115. Colum McManamon 116. Brendan Bicknall

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